South East Asia has many wonderful places to visit and great things to do. It also offers some of the not-so-traditional and slightly crazy things to do that most people wouldn’t dream of doing back home, but hey isn’t that the joy of travelling? Here is my list (although I must say I don’t personally agree with all of them)..

The beautiful island of Singapore nestles snugly between Malaysia and Indonesia. Sir Stamford Raffles founded the modern Singapore and the city itself still retains a huge amount of quintessential Britishness. A perfect example of this is the eponymous Raffles Hotel, a favourite haunt of celebrites including Noel Coward, Rudyard Kipling and Somerset Maughan…

Some call it the highest mountain in South East Asia (although they would be wrong). Some call it the easiest “proper” mountain to climb (in my experience, I’d say they were wrong too). Some call it an unmissable highlight of their trip to Borneo (they however, would be right on the money)…

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